It gets tired.
People are poor at sustained vigilance over streams that are almost always fine. By the fortieth approval of the day, the reviewer is matching the shape of the dialog box, not reading it.
TestMachine · Security for the agentic age
Capability is converging. What still differs is how much of it you can put to work without a person watching every step. You set the intent — TestMachine turns it into guardrails, enforces them on every action, and tells you the moment an agent drifts.
Every dot is an agent action running inside its mandate. Push one out — or click to apply pressure.
The autonomy gap
Every approval gate is a queue, and an agent waiting on a person is capacity you paid for, sitting idle. Autonomy does not make a model smarter. It lets you actually use the intelligence you already have.
Source: Cloud Security Alliance, State of Cloud and AI for Financial Services 2026 (340 respondents).
People are poor at sustained vigilance over streams that are almost always fine. By the fortieth approval of the day, the reviewer is matching the shape of the dialog box, not reading it.
Model reviewers realistically, with attention that degrades under load, and safety follows an inverted U: past a certain escalation rate, more human checks make the system less safe.
“Loopjacking”: what a human approved is not what runs. Tool configurations change after approval; command arguments change between approval and execution.
None of this means humans should leave. It means humans are in the wrong place.
How it works
Humans set policy, goals and acceptable outcomes. A system turns that intent into guardrails, enforces them, and tells you the moment an agent drifts.
What the agent is for, what counts as success, and what must never happen. Plain language, owned by your team.
Analysis of the agent’s code and runtime maps which untrusted inputs can reach which sensitive actions, and classifies each action by blast radius.
Canary credentials that should never be used, and tripwires on arguments and budgets, turn a hijacked agent into a loud signal instead of a silent breach.
Routine work runs. Out-of-policy behavior is blocked or escalated, with the path that led to it — and every control traces back to the policy line it came from.
The foundation
Azimuth, our attack agent, explores systems, reasons about attack paths and validates them through execution. That offensive understanding of how complex systems fail is how we derive controls: we know which inputs can reach which actions because finding those paths is what we do.
Products
Trust remains the business model. Auditability is not a tax on autonomy — it is how autonomy gets approved.
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